NEW SOL MELIA HOTEL & SERVICES DIRECTORY

Singapore, 28 April 2000

Leading European hotel chain Sol Meliá today announced the launch of the

latest edition of its Hotels & Services Directory. The Directory includes

detailed information of the Group's worldwide properties which are in

excess of 260 hotels 27 countries under its Meliá, Sol and Paradisus hotel

brands including all of the hotels recently purchased and taken over by the

company.



The design of the new directory is consistent with the Group's new tagline:

Everything is Possible.



According to Mr Charles Tee, Vice President Sales & Marketing Sol Meliá

Asia Pacific, "The new edition of the Sol Meliá directory is a concise,

extremely useful source of information for our customers, intermediaries

and company employees given the detailed information it provides on our

hotels and the services they provide". He adds that, "the new design that

we have used for this edition also helps to make it a lot more modern,

elegant and functional".



In addition to this information, the new Sol Meliá directory includes

sections that detail the group's brand definitions, loyalty programmes,

reservations information, and contact details throughout the world. There

is also further information on the new line of guestroom amenities, the

exclusive Meliá Boutique hotels and the luxury Garden Villas.



The information included in the directory can also be viewed on the Sol

Meliá's website at https://www.solmelia.com, which will be updated as new

properties are included in the Group's portfolio.



Copies of the directory can be requested via email at

sales.asia@solmelia.com.sg.



Sol Meliá, Europe's leading hotel group and the ninth largest hotel company

in the world, has a portfolio of more than 260 city and resort hotels in 28

countries under the brand names of Meliá, Sol and Paradisus hotels. The

newest additions to the Group include 10 new properties in Paris, the Meliá

Roma Aurelia (in Rome), Meliá Mexico Reforma (in Mexico DF) and Meliá White

House (in London). Its properties in Asia include Gran Meliá Jakarta, Meliá

Bali (incorporating The Garden Villas), Meliá Benoa (Bali), Sol Lovina

(Bali), Meliá Purosani (Yogyakarta), Meliá Panorama (Batam), and Sol Elite

Marbella (Anyer) in Indonesia; Meliá Hanoi in Vietnam; Meliá Kuala Lumpur

in Malaysia; Meliá Hua Hin and Sol Twin Towers (Bangkok) in Thailand. Sol

Meliá has signed contracts to take-over and manage a further 60 hotels by

the year 2002.